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Patented Apr. 24.1883.

:l IN'VENTORS'- l l ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

V(No Model.)

UNITEDA STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. RUDE AND HORACE G. SWOPE, OF LIBERTY, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO THE RUDE BROTHERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GRAIN-DRILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,474, dated April 24, 1883.

Application ledOctober 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatwe, JOHN R. RUDE `and HORACE G. SWOPE, of Liberty, Union county, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Drills,ot' which the following is a specicaton. y

This invention relates to the arrangement of the seat and drag-lifts of common grain'- drills, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view, part section, of a grain-drill embodying our improvements; and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of some of the parts in position. A A represent the end pieces of the main frame; B, the front rail ot' the main frame; l), the seed-box; E, the lift-bar; F, the liftbar lever; G, the drag-chains; H,the dragbars; I, the boots; J, the pivot-lugs cast onA the boots; K, the break-pins in the lugs J; L, the axle, all t constructed and arranged as usual inv grain-drills.

Q is a lever, double-ended, as shown, located between the two bars usually forming the t drag-bar H. One end of the lever bears on the lug J ofthe boot I and the other end ot' the lever receives the chain G, which is usually att tached directly to the drag-bars. When the chains aretaut and the boots lifted the short ends of levers Q bear-firmly on lugs J of the boots and prevent the boots from tipping out ot position, as is usually the case unless a second break-pin is used under the drag-har for each boot. lf, in backing, the boots strike obstructions, they yield by lifting their drag-bars and oscillating their levers Q slightly in an obvious manner.

R R are levers main frame.

V is a board attached to the levers R and supported` by them, Ythe ends of the board entering into shallow mortises in the inner faces of the levers.

W is a truss-rod reachiu g from lever to lever, and trussed by the strut-casting X, under the center of the boardV V, and bythe nuts Z, outside the levers R. y

Tis a seat bolted to top` of board V by the same bolts, Y, which hold the strut-casting X. Lugs S, catching under the frame to which the levers R are pivotcd, prevent the` seat droppmv.

pivoted to the rear of the U is a hook-catch upon the rear face of the seed-box. It engages with the seat, when the seat, with board and levers, is turned upward, and retains it out of the way While the boots, Sac., are being inspected or manipulated. The position of the lever F is such that aseat, located in the rear of the seedbox, gives the driver good control ot' the lever. The board V, reaching from lever to lever, produces a in the rail C, straddled by a notched arm cast on the shank ot' the foot-rest. The foot-rests project down between drag-bars withoutintertering with them.

. We claim as our invention- 1. The lever Q, combined with the lift-chain, drag-bar, and boot, substantially as set forth.

2. The seat T in the rear of the machine, combined with foot-rests P, attached to the frame ot' the machine, between the drag-bars, substantially as set forth.

3. The seat T, in the rear of the machine, combined with foot-rests P, hungon pivots and arranged between the dragbars, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the machine-frame, the arms or levers R, pi voted thereto, the seat T, and the wooden board V, supporting theseat,'andbolted to said arms or levers, su bstantially as set forth.

5. The seat T, combined with the Wooden board V, rod NV, and strutX, substantially as set forth.

6. The seat T, combined with Wooden board V, rod W, strut X, and levers R, receiving the ends of the board and rod, substantially as set forth.

JOHN E. EUDE. HORACE G. SWOIE. Witnesses:

B. F. CLARK, Jas. OTooLE.. 

